Combined coin and check collecting box.



No. 634,360; Patented Oct. 3, I899. F. B. MANY.

COMBINED COIN AND CHECK COLLECTING BOX.

(Application filed July 23, 1897.)

(No Model.)

a/wey' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK B. MANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

COMBINED COIN AND CHECK-COLLECTING BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,360, dated October 3, 1899.

Application filed July 23, 1897. Serial No. 645,700. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK B. MANY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Coin and Check Collecting Box, of which I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in combined coin and check collecting boxes; and the objects of the invention are to provide means for preventing the return of a coin or check once deposited in the conduit and to prevent the insertion of a tool to as-.

sist in withdrawing a coin orcheck therefrom.

My invention consists in the pockets arranged adjacent to the conduit-passage and the falling bars placed within said pockets, as hereinafter described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical sectional view of the invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of the, same. Fig. 3 is a detail of bell-ringing device.

In the views, 1 is the box; 2, the conduit; 3, a trap between the bottom of the conduit and the coin-receptacle 4 at the base of the box.

5 5 are short pockets opening diagonally upward into the passage of the conduit and containing short bars 6, which when the conduit is placed vertically are just contained within the pockets and permit the coin or check to pass freely into the receptacle below; but when the box is slightly tipped the bars on the upper side will begin to move downward into the conduit and will close the passage before the coin or check can be extracted. When the box is turned upside down, the bars on both sides of the passage will fall and completely shut off all parts of the conduit protected by them, so that in no position can the coin or check find a returnpassage through the conduit. The passage of the conduit is also irregular in shape or zigzag to prevent the insertion of a tool to force downa coin or check.

In Fig. 3 is shown the mechanism for ringing the bell as the register is operated by the push-button 10. The stem 11 of this button also simultaneously works the trap and permits the coin or check to fall into the receptacle. The mechanism shown is a rotary register 12, provided with a ratchet-wheel 13 upon the stem 14. This is engaged by the spring-actuated pawl 15, pivoted upon the bearing 16, which moves with the stem 11 of the push-button.

17 is a spring-actuated bell-clapper, and 18 is the bell.

19 is an arm which operates the trap and is directly moved by the extremity of the stem 11 as it reciprocates.

The form of register and operating mechanism are not essential to the character of the invention; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

a 1. In a combined coin and check collecting box, the combination with a conduit-trap and receptacle underneath said trap, of pockets opening into the conduit-passage, and inclining downwardlytherefrom, and bars in said pockets adapted to enter and close the conduit-passage when the box is inverted, substantially as described.

2. In a combined coin or check collecting box, the combination with a conduit, of means .for preventing the return-passage of a coin or check through the conduit-passage, consisting of short bars, and pockets inclosing said bars, and placed diagonally upon the conduit-walls, substantially as described.

FRANK B. MANY.

Witnesses:

WM. M. MONROE, ARTHUR B. RUST. 

